Disrupting the Debate
April 25, 2017 8:08 AM ET
Governments use copyright laws and Twitter bots to curb criticism on social media By Alexandra Ellerbeck On July 10, 2016, Ecuadoran journalist Bernardo Abad tweeted that the former vice-president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, had not paid income taxes for the...
Collapse of state institutions leaves Yemeni journalists vulnerable
April 24, 2017 5:40 PM ET
A journalist dies mysteriously in Yemen after receiving threats because of his work, and the resulting autopsy raises more questions than answers. A columnist in the same country is sentenced to death on espionage charges in an opaque trial....
Nigerian blogger, publisher jailed on defamation charges
March 24, 2017 4:20 PM ET
Abuja, Nigeria, March 24, 2017--Nigerian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release blogger Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo and newspaper publisher Samuel Welson, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The two have been held in a maximum security prison for more than a...
Police search Brazilian blogger's devices in morning raid
March 24, 2017 12:57 PM ET
São Paulo, March 24, 2017--A police search of Brazilian blogger Carlos Eduardo Cairo Guimarães' residence and electronic devices to uncover the sources for a story he had published was an alarming violation of journalists' right to protect their sources,...
'I wanted to stay and fight for my beliefs' says jailed Vietnamese blogger forced into exile
February 17, 2017 12:22 PM ET
Vietnamese journalist and religious activist Dang Xuan Dieu was granted early release January 12 from a 13-year prison sentence on anti-state charges filed over his critical reporting. As with recent early releases of other jailed Vietnamese journalists, Dieu was...
CPJ calls on Egypt to lift travel ban on blogger Esraa Abdel Fattah
December 23, 2016 3:37 PM ET
New York, December 23, 2016--Egypt must lift the travel ban imposed on Esraa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian blogger, columnist, and social media activist, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Abdel Fattah has been under a travel ban for nearly...
Russia jails blogger over post criticizing military action in Syria
December 20, 2016 6:03 PM ET
New York, December 20, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Russian authorities to release Aleksei Kungurov, a blogger from Siberia who was convicted of "calling for terrorism." A regional court in Tyumen today sentenced Kungurov to two years...
Editor of human rights news website detained in China
November 28, 2016 5:18 PM ET
New York, November 28, 2016 - Chinese authorities should immediately release Liu Feiyue, the editor and founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, known in China as Minsheng Guancha, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...